A DEALER who dished out drugs to addicts for extra cash has been jailed for 45 months.

Khia Yearwood-May was caught with more than 67g of heroin and cocaine when police scoured a house he was at in Oxford.

Sentencing at Oxford Crown Court on Tuesday, Judge Ian Pringle QC said the drugs would have yielded a 'very considerable' amount of cash when handed out on the street.

The judge told the 21-year-old he 'clearly did not learn' his lesson, re-offending a year after being slapped with a nine-month sentence, suspended for 12 months, for drug dealing.

Officers scoured the house in Acacia Avenue, Greater Leys, finding the defendant in a room on the first floor on January 21, prosecutor Timothy Boswell said.

Wraps slightly smaller than 50 pence coins were uncovered, along with a lock knife and cash concealed in a glass bottle and bedside table.

Police also discovered car keys in an Armani bag belonging to Yearwood-May, finding 11 wraps of the drugs hidden inside the Mercedes parked outside the house.

The court heard officers uncovered 17.6g of heroin and 50.18g of cocaine during their search.

Defence barrister Andel Singh said Yearwood-May, of Benson Close, Luton, turned to dealing to 'supplement his income'.

Yearwood-May, who appeared at the court via video link from HMP Bullingdon, admitted two counts of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs.

Judge Pringle, who ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the drugs, and the forfeiture of the cash, activated five months of the defendant's earlier suspended sentence and jailed him for 40 months for the drugs offences.